The enterprise AI field guide.

Plain definitions for decisions that are too important to hide behind product language.

Direct answer

This field guide explains how MH – Applied AI uses core enterprise AI terms and identifies the operational decisions behind each one.

Forward-deployed engineering

Senior engineers work inside the client context from outcome framing through deployment, operation, and transfer. The purpose is to shorten the distance between a decision and the system that must support it.

Private AI

Selected model, data, retrieval, and inference paths run inside infrastructure controlled by the organization. Private does not automatically mean on-premises, disconnected, or open source.

Agentic AI

Software uses models to choose and sequence actions within a bounded task, approved tools, permissions, and stop conditions. Autonomy is a designed range, not a binary property.

Token efficiency

The system uses only the model calls and context required to meet a measured quality target. Efficiency includes routing, retrieval quality, caching, shorter context, smaller models, and deterministic software.

Embodied AI

Perception, reasoning, and action are connected to a physical system. The operating design must account for timing, sensors, movement, supervision, safety, maintenance, and real-world variation.

Bring us the mission, not a shopping list.

In the first conversation we map the operational outcome, constraints, deployment environment, and the shortest credible path to evidence.

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